We started the meeting this morning with a moment of
silence for our friend and former Kiwanis Brother Bob
Krimmel. Bob passed away Sunday, March 22 after a long
illness. Services for Bob will be at 10:00am Thursday,
March 26 at Graceland/Fairlawn Funeral Home.

Jane French

Project Linus

Donna introduced Jane as a delightful
person that she has known for quite a while.
She is the Project Linus Coordinator for the
Christ Church Stitchers of Central Christian
Church. The Stichers meet at CCC every
Tuesday morning at 9:00am to make blankets
for Project Linus. Jane brought Kathy, Leah,
and Juanita to help with these beautiful
blankets.

Project Linus was started in 1995 in the
after math of the Columbine School Shootings
when people found out how healing a blanket
can be to children under stress for any
reason. Stitchers was founded here in 2000
to support Project Linus locally. Their
mission statement is twofold. One is to
provide love, comfort, and security to
children who seriously ill or traumatized or
otherwise in the need of a new, homemade
blanket or afghan lovingly created by
volunteers. The second part is to provide a
rewarding and fun service opportunity for
interested individuals or groups to the
local community for the benefit of children
Jane says that in the 15 years of their
existence, they have made more than 14,000
blankets. We have two people who pickup
blankets from the all over Central Illinois
and deliver 500 – 600 blankets a month and
deliver them to area hospitals.

The blankets are beautiful things. Most are
made from bright colors and a multitude of
patterns. The standard size is 40 inches by
60 inches which fits most children, but
sometimes they need other sizes. In
Bloomington the doctors and nurses take the
children in the hospital to camp for a week.
When they arrive there is a blanket on the
bunk. The owner of the Golden Corral
Restaurant chain sponsors a Camp Corral that
is for children of military families and
requires some with military type designs.
They make a weighted blanket for autistic
children. The additional weight keeps the
blanket on and they love the closeness.

A couple of years a go there was a suicide
in a nearby high school. One of the girls
there had helped make blankets with Project
Linus and knew they would be needed here. A
call was put out on the Linus website and
the next day 250 teen sized blankets were on
the way.

We had 4 Kiwanis guests this morning here this
morning on an Interclub from Tuscola. They were

Dave Butler, Janet Butler Doris Young
and
Jan Chofpel.
Welcome to you all. Dave is the present District
II Lieutenant Governor and he intimated that, if
Charles Smith survived the rest of this year, he
would be the next governor of the II District.
Congratulations, Charles!

We had 4 Kiwanis guests this morning here this
morning on an Interclub from Tuscola. They were

Dave Butler, Janet Butler Doris Young
and
Jan Chofpel.
Welcome to you all. Dave is the present District
II Lieutenant Governor and he intimated that, if
Charles Smith survived the rest of this year, he
would be the next governor of the II District.
Congratulations, Charles!

said It’s time to talk about the Flapjacks at
Applebee’s Fundraiser. It will be from 8:00am to
10:00am Saturday, April 14. We are allowed to
sell 200 tickets and have sold 150 so far. If
you want to go you better buy now. For $5.00 you
get pancakes, bacon, beverage, with syrup and
butter. Seconds will be available. We must help
the restaurant with seating and serving. There
are two shifts one from 7:30am to 9:00am and the
other from 9:00am to 10:30am. Cheryl has the
signup sheets in the back.

Don Kamm
said the “green team” of pull tab salesmen are
ready to go tomorrow night at the bingo hall.
He also said that money was starting to come in
from the sponsors allowing him to breathe a
little easier.
Notice: If you or anyone you know recruited
Raymond James please let him know immediately.

Gary Goeken
said that at the Salvation Army’s Appreciation
Dinner March 11, the Salvation Army gave him a
Certification of Appreciation for the help the
Golden K gives the S. A.. He then presented it
to Charles Smith.

Charles Smith
asked Joy Greive and her Admissions Committee to
stand. The Golden K. had received a Certificate
of Appreciation from Kiwanis International for
getting new members. There are 4 levels bronze,
silver, gold, and platinum. Ours was at the gold
level. Charles Congratulated Joy and her team.

Murphy,
a dishonest lawyer, bribed a man on his client's jury to
hold out for a charge of manslaughter, as opposed to the
charge of murder which was brought by the state.

The jury was out for several days before they returned
with the manslaughter verdict.

When Murphy paid the corrupt juror, he asked him if he
had a very difficult time convincing the other jurors to
see things his way.

"Sure did," the juror replied, "the other eleven wanted
to acquit."

A group of tourists stood spellbound looking into the
depths of the Grand Canyon. "And this wonder is all the
more impressive," the guide droned on, "when you realize
that it took millions and millions of years to carve out
this great abyss."
"Well, well!" exclaimed a plain citizen, "I'd never have
suspected that this was a government project."